The Brooklyn Academy of Music will honor Bruce Lee this week with a kung fu film series. Bruce Lee made five films in only three years prior to his death. They intend to run newly restored “Enter the Dragon” accompanied by screenings of other great cinematic displays of wing chun made famous by Lee’s master teacher Ip Man.
Organizer of the film series Nellie Killian says, “[Bruce Lee] was one of those few figures in Chinese American history that was really able to bridge the gap between the old and the new world.”
Also showing are Donnie Yen’s rendition of the Ip Man story, Lee’s 1972 film “The Way of the Dragon,” Hung’s humorous “Enter the Fat Dragon” and “The Prodigal Son,” and the Shaw Brothers classic “Invincible Shaolin.”
